FTC to Congress: Don't Wait for Us to Pass Patent Troll Legislation
Tech industry still pushing for action
Congress shouldn’t wait for a pending Federal Trade Commission investigation into patent troll practices before passing legislation, commissioner Julie Brill said today during an International CES panel on patent litigation reform.
The FTC last year opened an investigation into patent assertion entities as a follow-up to its 2011 report. But government reports take time and the chances of anything coming out quickly are slim.
You don’t have to walk far at the International CES to know that stopping patent trolls is at the top of the tech industry agenda.
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